Time for Alan Pardew to clean up his act

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There is a portrait of Sir Bobby Robson on the wall of Alan Pardew’s office at
Newcastle United’s training ground. “It reminds me of the values of this
football club when I look at it,” the manager once said. “You know, just the
standards that Sir Bobby set. I’m not the same character as him, but that
doesn’t mean I can’t try and emulate him. I have to be conscious of trying
to set the same standards.”

Pardew will be bruised by yesterday’s sanction from an independent FA
commission — which is more than David Meyler was from arguably the softest